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Re: [PATCH] ld support for position independent executables
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>,Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 09:28:58 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] ld support for position independent executables
- References: <20030529130353.GJ24872@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 03:03:53PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> -fpic), gcc will still need changing (at least specs file changes
> to use Scrt1.o and pass -pie through to ld, but I'd like also to add
> -fpie/-fPIE switches similar to -fpic/-fPIC, which would allow gcc to make
> similar assumptions about symbol visibility as for binaries.
This sounds like a perfect example to split up the current
-fPIC/flag_pic to separate between PIC code and shared library code...
esp. for arches where all code is PIC anyway.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer